Toilet Bowl 2019

We looked at the winners, now let's take a look at the losers! Here are our bottom eight teams from 2019, which will be fighting for the right to the *1-8 draft slots next year. Reminder that #9 and #10 seeds can only win up to the *3 draft slot!

#9 So Buckets (10-9-1)
First half (WK1-10): 8/5/7 ODE, 6th
Second half (WK11-20): 12/8/2 ODE, 8th
By all accounts, this team probably should be in the playoffs with its 0.500+ record. A core of Kyrie Irving, DeMar DeRozan, CJ McCollum, Joel Embiid, and Rudy Gobert was ranked one of the best in the league. Even a move across conferences to Chamberlain should’ve given last year’s fourteen win team no slowdown except to accumulate victories.

Alas, reality finds us all and a wonderful baby came into Josh’s life. I know firsthand how that can take down one’s free time — I’m an uncle! — and thus So Buckets fell into Toilet Bowl after two straight Voltron division titles. Josh has never actually been out of the first round of the Toilet Bowl in three previous attempts but they are the odds-on favorite to win this year. With a resurgent season from Derrick Rose, a little dash of Harrison Barnes, Noah Vonleh, and maybe even Jabari Parker, these Buckets could earn a nice third overall draft pick to bring home with daddy to nap with!

Buckets has a stellar front court and one of the better defenses in the Toilet Bowl. They are fourth in FG%, BLK, TO, and fifth in REB. While their offense has gone in the tank over the back half of the season, an impressive second overall efficiency rating could definitely power them through most challengers.

#10 Team Thien (9-11)
4/10/8 ODE, 7th
13/10/9 ODE, 12th
Our other team ineligible for the top prize in the Toilet Bowl, Thien’s 2019 story is the tale of two halves. After starting off 7-2 and looking like a contender, they’ve gone 2-9 the rest of the way to end up with their first losing record ever in SlamNation, and are now off to their third ever trip to the Toilet Bowl. A trip in 2010 resulted in a TB win and John Wall, but in 2013 then Super Ninja was upset in the semis. How will Thien fare this time out?

A late breaking trade will now give Thien a new leader: Kemba Walker. With the injury to John Wall and the recent ACL recovery of DeMarcus Cousins, Thien needed something to juice their fan base. A Kemba, Jimmy Butler, Mike Conley, and Dennis Schroder backcourt should be enough to take most of the guard categories right? Looking over the second half cats, Thien was awful in AST, REB, FG%, while being only excellent in TO. However, we can’t give those numbers much credence as inserting Kemba changes everything. We’re going to see how well Thien’s Games Played streaming works in the playoffs this year as we finally have eliminated roster lock!

#11 LA Buffy (8-11-1)
10/15/8 ODE, 12th
5/14/8 ODE, 9th
The Zion sweepstakes start here as Buffy has the best shot at landing Zion Williamson, the incoming god among mortals. This marks six straight seasons out of the playoffs for Roger and the rebuild from old to young has been long but we’re about to possibly see a forty-inch vertical leap forward if Buffy can land the top pick in this Toilet Bowl.

After declaring this team one of the three “gold player-less” teams in the league -- and the worst rated keeper core --Roger might have found their franchise cornerstone in 2019 1.4 rookie Trae Young. With 23.7 PTS and 9.5 AST in his last month of games, Young has been leading the charge for a suddenly scary Buffy squad that has nice pieces up and down the roster. Unfortunately, Brandon Ingram has been shelved for the season and Kyle Kuzma is also staring at an injury. With the young Lakers out, this go-go Buffy offense could suffer quite a bit.

Still, a 3-2-1 record in recent weeks is a huge sign of encouragement — those two losses and tie came against Chunky, Funk, Swamp — as Buffy has an offensive advantage over everyone else in the Toilet Bowl field. They are third ranked in PTS and FG% over the second half of the season and sixth in 3PT. While they are distinctly lacking in defense all around, a league average efficiency rating should be just enough to make Buffy scary to all comers. We commend coach Roger for putting up our league leading Games Played, meaning this was no tank job! If karma is a thing, then Buffy will earn a Zion to pair with his Trae.

#12 IL Conceived (7-13)
11/7/16 ODE, 14th
7/11/16 ODE, 14th
After scooping up Donovan Mitchell, Dennis Smith Jr, Luka Doncic, and Jaren Jackson in successive drafts since entering the league, Frank now has his set on Zion as well. A full on all-in push to buff his frontline off a recent trade means IL Conceived means business. They’ve already gotten to a Toilet Bowl finals in their short one-year history and has a decent shot at getting there again.

A 1-5 start portended their journey toward the Toilet Bowl but there have been sparks to promise in wins versus Fat Jubas and Chunky Monkeys throughout the season. A four game slide at the end of the season put IL Conceived behind the eight ball though, and now an injury to Jaren Jackson could further hamstring their chances. But with Mitchell performing like a star again, and Luka magic, maybe a deep run in the Toilet Bowl could happen.

It’s been a very weird flip floppy year for IL Conceived as they started the first half of the season with an above average defense but somehow flipped that right around and became a seventh rated offense for the second half. One thing has remained steady however: this team is wildly inefficient. Last in the league FG% and very poor FT% means it’s an uphill battle for IL Conceived each week. Their lone statistical highlight is a top-three ranking in AST, plus a decent volume of 3PT. Will that be enough to get a top pick and complete the rookies set?

#13 Hilt the Stilt (6-14)
16/8/8 ODE, 11th
16/5/11 ODE, 11th
For a team that put up the second-to-last Games Played, made no roster moves, and racked up eleven mismanagement weeks total, getting to six wins is quite impressive! What’s even stranger is that two of those wins have come against Spade and Fat Jubas, who both twelve-win teams. What do we make of this team then?

Losing Victor Oladipo for the season obviously hurt but there was the emergence of rookie Kevin Knox and the brief flash of Derrick White to cheer for. Somehow the team put up a fifth rated defense over the back half of the season — and didn’t even use Jarrett Allen — which just speaks to the impressive REB/STL/BLK power of Andre Drummond, Steven Adams, rookie Mikal Bridges, and White. Will first year owner Dave turn it up for a Zion chase? Maybe! They’ll be facing an uphill battle but on paper this team could be a dark horse threat right?

#14 Snack Bears (5-15)
7/13/15 ODE, 15th
14/13/15 ODE, 16th
After losing in the regular season finale to their friend Dave, Snack Bears find themselves near the bottom of the barrel despite one of the more exciting breakout seasons happening right on their roster! Yes we’re talking about De’Aaron Fox, who has emerged during his sophomore year as likely the best point guard from his loaded draft class. Fox was also joined by excellent years from Bradley Beal and Blake Griffin, and the 2019 draft also brought in Wendell Carter Jr. and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who look like future bright spots. Add in Kristaps Porzingis and this lost season could turn around in a hurry.

For now though, it looks like Snack will have to deal with a RD1 Toilet Bowl defeat as they have no clear strengths, a league worst overall ODE rating, and a roster full of guys who need time to (over)cook. Also, mismanagement during five of their last seven games — after accruing none through the first thirteen weeks — have sent Snack Bears spinning downward and we’re not sure if that’s part of the overall strategy or what. We hope there’s an evil plot by Brandon and Dave to take out SlamNation soon, as these two New Yorkers might just be biding their time and waiting for the right opportunity to strike!

#15 Another Bad Creation (4-16)
14/10/4 ODE, 9th
10/11/13 ODE, 13th
We must all thank ABC for their WK11 defeat of defending champion Chunky Monkeys during Christmas week. At the time, Monkeys were undefeated and that ABC loss sent them into a tailspin that made LeBron and Co. mortal again. So thank you Oliver! The question is, what does ABC have for an encore?

A very difficult last stretch of the season still yielded two of this season’s four total wins and there’s a chance that Russell Westbrook and LaMarcus Aldridge could earn a better than expected draft slot for next season. A last minute trade of Dwayne Wade for Evan Fournier and Kent Bazemore adds a little bit of depth to Another Bad Creation but this roster is a bit in shambles behind the big two, as previous contributors such as Enes Kanter, TJ Warren, Tristan Thompson, and Kyle Anderson are all either ineffective or injured.

Oliver has been putting up respectable Games Played numbers all season though and he’s been engaged throughout, as befitting an owner that is coming off three straight Transformer titles and even had the best regular season record last year. With a seemingly weak keeper core, we’re very intrigued about the rebuild that seems inevitable, as Aldridge will be thirty-four years old next season and there doesn’t seem to be any young talent in the pipeline, unless you want to count Malik Beasley in a crowded Denver rotation. A huge Toilet Bowl upset could get ABC the piece it needs to rebuild fast so we’re crossing our fingers for Oliver's upset success!

#16 Team Cameltoe (3-17)
15/14/6 ODE, 16th
15/16/3 ODE, 15th
They say you have to go down before you go up and if that’s the case, then welcome to Cameltoe’s absolute bottom. Cameltoe’s season has gone just about as well as their franchise cornerstone Anthony Davis’, and at least Cameltoe doesn’t have Magic Johnson calling the shots. While grading out as our worst owner on the season, we know Felipe too well to not suspect that he doesn’t have something up his sleeve. Any man who has a dedicated email for his fantasy franchises is clearly forward thinking enough to a tank season right?

A league low 409 Games Played — 20.5 per week, or -4.25 less than the Slam average — and fourteen of twenty weeks mismanaged has to mean something is up. Does Cameltoe secretly employ Rich Paul?! More importantly, can this team on a ten-game losing streak entering the Toilet Bowl even entertain a dream of a monumental #16 vs #9 seed upset?! With prize rookie Marvin Bagley out, that answer is probably a solid “no,” but still we must dare dream.

Could a team of new Laker Anthony Davis, Steph 2.0 Buddy Hield, Bagley, Hassan Whiteside, Harry Giles, Josh Jackson, and maybe Michael Porter Jr. keep fans in the stands next season? We’re about to find out and we hope the good people of Cameltoe-ville demand a strong finish to the season. Or at least a team that shows up when there's something valuable on the line right?

Playoffs 2019

A look at our eight playoff teams in Power Ranking order. Note the first and second half ODE splits!

#1 Swamp Dragons (15-3-2)
First half (WK1-10): 3/3/11 ODE, 3rd
Second half (WK11-20): 1/2/13 ODE, 5th
Two Toilet Bowl wins and four out-of-playoff seasons later, Swamp Dragons are fully revived and ready to resume their world beating ways. Swamp picked up a Russell Conference title this year and also earned the best regular season record in the league. Eddie’s team is the clear favorite heading into the title chase and they’ll be playing for a much bigger prize this year than next season’s top overall pick. After a semi-disastrous LeBron James trade four years ago, Swamp is back!

For the season, Swamp had the third best combined ODE over the first half but then dipped a bit to fifth overall as their efficiency slipped and other teams passed them by. However, their offensive and defensive ratings nudged up to first and second respectively, so that seems like an upgrade overall. They are top-two in every category save FG%, BLK, and TO, which gives them some slight holes but that’s just mere details when they dominate in the other six categories.

The returning core of MVP candidate Paul George, Nikola Jokic, and Jusuf Nurkic have all been as great as advertised while trades for Khris Middleton and D’Angelo Russell worked out handsomely. Add in the addition of the most offensively efficient rookie ever in Deandre Ayton and this team went from merely deep to overpowering. (The less we mention Markelle Fultz the better.) And we don’t want to overlook second round pick Jeremy Lamb’s role in all this, as Lamb has been quietly spectacular all year.

After starting off 4-3, Swamp hasn’t lost a game since WK7 and are 11-0-2 since, including wins against all the top contenders — including two versus their biggest competition, Sour Snails.

#2 Sour Snails (14-5-1)
2/1/3 ODE, 1st
2/3/4 ODE, 1st
Our inaugural Chamberlain Conference champions is a familiar name aren't they? Once a lowly 5-4, Trieu’s team righted the ship and has gone 9-1-1 over the back half of the season. Sour Snails led SlamNation in combined ODE rating end-to-end, with outstanding efficiency and a top-two offense. Their defense was the best in the league through our first ten weeks but “only” third for the second half. For individual rankings, the Snails were top three in PTS, REB, 3PT, BLK and both percentages for most of the season, and have only a poor turnover rate and league average AST and STL as “weaknesses.”

GM Trieu has also had consistently high Games Played, made a huge number of roster moves, and participated in four trades — highlighted by the pre-draft shipping off of Damian Lillard, a mid-season acquisition of Zach LaVine, and then a late season dump off of excess talent. Through it all, they’ve drafted future stars, unearthed waiver gems, and made possibly only one misstep: letting keeper Brook Lopez go early in the season. After a 10-11 dip last year -- that still led to a Finals showing -- Snails now enters the 2019 playoffs positioned to add a fifth title to their ring collection. Update: A late breaking fifth trade of Kemba Walker for Demarcus Cousins changes everything! Or does it?

#3 Chunky Monkeys (14-5-1)
1/4/14 ODE, 4th
4/6/12 ODE, 6th
The defending champs face an uphill battle for a repeat as they’ll have to go through their cousin Eddie as well as longtime foe Sour Snails to capture a back-to-back title. Despite a top record, Monkeys swooned mid-season and had a winless month WK7-10. But all seems right again as they are 4-1-1 heading into the playoffs. Of course Monkeys feasted on five non-playoff teams during that time so we’re still not sure how good they are overall, notwithstanding their confidence boosting win in WK20 versus Squirtle Snails.

During their ten game win streak to start the season, Monkeys were the fourth-best team by combined ODE and had the best offense in the league, along with a top tier defense. Over the second half of the season though, while their efficiency rating has increased a smudge, their offensive and defensive numbers have dropped to fourth and sixth respectively. That all has resulted in a drop to sixth overall in combined ODE. Category wise, a powerful PTS, FG%, STL combo still fuels them, while AST and 3PT are almost elite. However this team can’t shoot free throws, is not great on the boards, and is middling in BLK.

Of course, a lot of that can be attributed to the injuries to Clint Capela and LeBron James, and to be honest, Chunky Monkeys are looking healthy at just the right time. James Harden and Kyle Lowry are a perfectly paired backcourt and Evan suddenly have a plethora of useful wings in Otto Porter Jr, Kelly Oubre (drafted in the sixth round, cut, and then back again), and Joe Harris. There isn’t a lot of high level depth here and Kris Dunn is a total wildcard and could be supplanted by rookie Collin Sexton easily. With LeBron James engaged and in playoff mode, Monkeys should have a shot at another title, even if the days of them dominating the regular season ended this year. Oh wait, LBJ is on a minutes restriction and not playing back-to-backs?! Do we smell a possible first round upset brewing?!

#4 Funk Coalition (13-7)
12/6/2 ODE, 5th
8/1/7 ODE, 4th
Despite a series of awful trades and re-upping on their most happy-to-trade title, Funk Coalition find themselves just on the edge of contention as they walked through a soft end-of-season schedule and climbed up the power rankings, just as predicted. After a shaky 2-5 start, Funk buckled down and went 11-2, with their only two losses coming against Sour Snails and Spade. Of course, they’ve also only picked up three of those thirteen wins versus playoff opponents so it’s an open question how good this coalition really is.

With a dramatic reimagining of their roster, Funk's season long ODE has been all over the place. A theme emerges though as they’ve maintained a strong defense — currently the league’s best defensive rating — and suffered from a weak offense plus some recent turnover issues. REB/STL/BLK are very strong across the board and there are even good percentages here, although Funk is middling for PTS and 3PT. But ending the season as the fourth best combined ODE team isn’t bad and could give them a puncher’s chance at an upset.

With Karl-Anthony Towns freed from his earlier season shackles, and Ben Simmons turnt up for his playoff mode, this team of all wings plus KAT/Simmons is basically a mix-and-match crew that should roll out a competitive first round.

For the record, this year’s outgoing versus incoming trade players.

• Outgoing: Khris Middleton, D’Angelo Russell, Andrew Wiggins, Rudy Gay, Lou Williams, Trevor Ariza, Jerami Grant, Evan Fournier, Kent Bazemore
• Incoming: Gordon Hayward, Wiggins, Taurean Prince, Nicolas Batum, Zach Collins, Jonathan Isaac, Evan Fournier, Nemanja Bjelica, Marcus Smart, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kent Bazemore, Dwayne Wade

#5 Squirtle Squad (12-6-2)
5/12/11 ODE, 10th
3/6/5 ODE, 2nd
After three long years in playoff exile, Squirtle has a fully formed Giannis Antetokounmpo ready to play world stomper and lead this team deep into the playoffs. Or at least get a playoff win? Squirtle hasn’t been out of the first round since 2012 but they're going to get a shot at a minor upset in the first round this year. Squirtles sat atop Chamberlain Conference as recently as a month ago but now find themselves relegated to the bottom half of the playoff bracket despite a 4-1-1 record down the stretch.

For the first half of the season, Squirtles was all offense as they poured on the scoring. However, their efficiency was suspect and their defense even more so. Thus, the turnaround to a top defensive and efficiency rating has been quite the surprise, evening out a team that used to be all-offense. That balance gave Squirtles the second-best combined ODE over the last ten weeks of the season. The biggest leap was in TOs, which went from 15th in the league to 8th, which may coincide with the mid-season trade off of Zach LaVine for ultra-efficient Tobias Harris — who has been just as good as a Clipper or a 76er.

Giannis has a perfect front court sidekick in Nikola Vucevic and now this crew of all shooters is perfectly aligned to take down a bigger fish. We’d love it if Squirtles got a shot at Spade in the second round, as there was some real slander thrown their way by Randall in our podcast. What do you have to say about that Squirtles!?

#6 Team Spade (12-7-1)
6/9/1 ODE, 2nd
2/3/4 ODE, 3rd
As discussed in our recent podcast episode, Randall had a terrible last season but we sort of knew that his team was always one of the best around. After a league worst two wins last season, Spade returned with a vengeance this year and ascended to second place in their new Chamberlain Conference digs. Throwing shots at all the contenders, Spade has a decent at a long awaited title as they are very balanced and enter the playoffs on a 6-2 tear, with one loss coming versus Swamp Dragons in WK17 and then a surprising WK20 loss to Fob Stars that tumbled them from the fourth seed to sixth.

The healthy return of Kawhi Leonard gave this team back the superstar it needed and now Kevin Love, Will Barton, and Devin Booker are all healthy. We already gave this keeper core high marks but all the vets are ready to play and heck, Danilo Gallinari hasn’t even suffered an injury all season. If ever there was a year for Spade to pull it together and upset their way to a ring, this could be their healthiest shot yet.

On the season, Spade has been ranked second and third for combined ODE, just behind the best in the league. They started off with the sixth and ninth offensive and defensive splits and have only gotten better over the second half of the season, ascending to second and third respectively. While Spade hasn’t been overwhelming in any category save 3PT and FT%, they are pretty good across the board save REB and some AST, but rebounds could be quickly rectified depending on Love’s playoff minutes. Is Spade good enough to be taken seriously as a dark horse contender? Definitely. Can they win the title this year? We’ll see!

#7 Fat Jubas (12-8)
8/2/13 ODE, 8th
9/3/10 ODE, 7th
There was a time when Fat Jubas was 8-2 and one of the contenders emerging out of the Russell Conference. But a so-so midseason swoon and then three straight losses to Squirtle, Sour Snails, and Spade took them out of home court advantage and even with two recent wins, it’ll be an uphill battle for this early season juggernaut.

Another mostly defense, some offense team like Funk Coalition, Fat Jubas has been ranked number one in BLK all season long and are mostly elite in STL — although that has fallen off post-Robert Covington. What is weird about this team is how they pair all that defense with an outrageous AST ranking, second overall for the season, and then supplement it by being terrible at FT% and pretty bad at 3PT to boot. So we have a brilliant BLK team that has lowish TOs, fantastic AST, but yet can’t shoot free throws or threes that well. Just who is on this roster?!

All those assists come courtesy of Chris Paul, Jrue Holiday, Jeff Teague, Joe Ingles, and Tomas Satoransky. All the blocks come from Myles Turner, Serge Ibaka, and now Jerami Grant in place of the still injured Covington. The culprit for the FT% tank is um, Willie Cauley-Stein? There should be plenty of deep range shooters on this team but most of the frontline save Grant doesn’t put up threes and with Jrue Holiday out for a crucial first round matchup, things look dire for Jubas. The recent elevation of post-trade Jonas Valanciunas could help a bit but depending on who Jubas faces off against in the playoffs, it could be a quick first round exit for Eric this year despite another successful regular season. Rob Cov, Jubas needs you back!

#8 Fob Stars (10-9-1)
13/16/5 ODE, 13th
11/15/5 ODE, 10th
Sometimes you don’t need to be the best team to be one of the winning-er teams. Fob Stars started off the season coming off the arguably terrible Damian Lillard for Kemba Walker and Tobias Harris trade, plus the non-emergence of Jamal Murray and the injury start of John Collins. A 1-6 record made it seem like Fob was headed straight for the Toilet Bowl.

Oh but look what happened since! After that initial seven weeks, Fob ripped off six wins and a tie versus Sour Snails, and went head to head against some of our strongest contenders and emerged victorious. A crushing schedule near the end of the season sent them back toward 0.500 but it’s been an outstanding season from owner Jimmy as he’s dragged his team back into the playoffs for a fourth straight season. Last year Fob Stars pulled off an upset against a higher seed, can they do it again?

It’s safe to say that Fob Stars haven’t been overly impressive in offensive or defensive rating all year, but they are a solid fifth in efficiency overall and throw down league average PTS and 3PT without turning the ball over much. Their real strength is in FG% and TO but really the engine this year has been GM Jimmy’s under-the-radar free agent pickups. Thaddeus Young, Jordan Clarkson, and Terrence Ross aren’t sexy but they’ve been tremendous in STL and 3PT, respectively. A turn toward even more offense could be interesting -- this team is just about last in STL and BLK.

Damian Lillard and John Collins are a nice one-two punch and while we’re still waiting on Jamal Murray, the recent emergence of Point Justise has been a boon to the lineup. It’ll be a tough act for Lillard to drag this team to a second round appearance but Fob Stars have already exceeded expectations this season and are well positioned to improve even more next year. Great job Jimmy!

Power Ranking: 2019

From our new rules: Top eight teams in the Power Rankings are re-seeded, irrespective of conference. Each playoff round and consolation round will be re-seeded as well. Here is the Power Ranking formula. Then the same follows for Toilet Bowl seedings.
Note: this power ranking seeding also determine draft order for RD2 of 2020 draft.

#1 Swamp Dragons (15-3-2)

#2 Sour Snails (14-5-1)

#3 Chunky Monkeys (14-5-1)

#4 Funk Coalition (13-7)

#5 Squirtle Squad (12-6-2)

#6 Spade (12-7-1)

#7 Fat Jubas (12-8)

#8 Fob Stars (11-8-1)

#9 So Buckets (10-9-1)

#10 Team Thien (9-11)

#11 LA Buffy (8-11-1)

#12 IL Conceived (7-13)

#13 Hilt the Stilt (6-14)

#14 Snack Bears (5-15)

#15 Another Bad Creation (4-16)

#16 Team Cameltoe (3-17)

Tie Breakers
• Sour Snails vs Chunky Monkeys: H2H goes to Sour Snails, 1-0 WK13
• Funk Coalition vs Squirtle Squad: H2H goes to Funk Coalition, 1-0 WK13

Playoff & Toilet Bowl Seedings: 2018

PLAYOFFS

*= divison winner

Chamberlain Conference

#1 Another Bad Creation (15-5-1)*
#2 Fat Jubas (12-9)*
#3 Fob Stars (10-10-1)
#4 Sour Snails (10-11)

Russell Conference
#1 Chunky Monkeys (20-1)*
#2 So Buckets (14-6-1)*
#3 Funk Coalition (13-7-1)
#4 Team Thien (13-7-1)


TOILET BOWL
Chamberlain Conference
#1 Squirtle Squad (9-10-2)
#2 Sager’s Suits and Ties (9-11-1)
#3 IL Conceived (8-12-1)
#4 LA Buffy (3-16-2)

Russell Conference
#1 Swamp Dragons (12-7-2)
#2 Snack Bears (6-15)
#3 Team Cameltoe (5-15-1)
#4 Team Spade (2-19)

Tie Breakers (rules)
• Sour Snails vs Squirtle Squad: To determine Chamberlain Conference wild card. Overall record (0.475 tied), H2H (1-1 tied), conference record (7-7 for both, tied), and finally “most categories won for season” which resulted in 96 for Snails and 86 for Squirtles. Result: Sour Snails is in the post-season, Squirtles is in the Toilet Bowl. 

• Funk Coalition vs Team Thien: No H2H matchups, Funk was 8-6-1 for conference while Thien was 8-6. Third tiebreaker is "most categories won for season” and Funk had 105 while Thien had 97. Result: Funk receives #2 seed in Russell Conference playoffs, Team Thien is the #3 seed.

Playoff & Toilet Bowl Seedings: 2015

PLAYOFFS
  *= division winner
Chamberlain Conference
#1 Sour Snails (17-1-1)*
#2 Squirtle Squad (12-7)*
#3 Fat Jubas (11-6-2)
#4 Silent Crows (11-8)

#1 MoRRie’s Pogiboys (14-5)*
#2 Spade (12-7)*
#3 High Riser (13-5-1)
#4 Chunky Monkeys (10-8-1)

TOILET BOWL
Chamberlain Conference
#1 Buffy (8-10-1)
#2 Half Man Half ImAsian (6-13)
#3 Jedi Knights (5-14)
#4 Fob Stars (4-14-1)

Russell Conference
#1 So Buckets (8-10-1)
#2 Inept Henchmen (8-11)
#3 NJ All-Stars (6-13)
#4 Funk Coalition (3-16)

Tie-Breakers
None! Great job guys! Made my job real easy this year!

Playoff & Toilet Bowl Seedings: 2014

PLAYOFFS

*= division winner
Chamberlain Conference
#1 Sour Snails (17-2)*
#2 Eron, Joven and Chandler (13-6)*
#3 Half Man Half ImAsian (11-8)
#4 Squirtle Squad (10-9)

Russell Conference
#1 NJ All-Stars (14-5)*
#2 So Buckets (11-8)*
#3 Spade (12-7)
#4 Super Ninja (10-8-1)


TOILET BOWL
Chamberlain Conference
#1 Fat Jubas (9-10)
#2 Fob Stars (8-11)
#3 LA Buffy (5-14)
#4 Jedi Knights (5-14)

Russell Conference
#1 Chunky Monkeys (9-10)
#2 Inept Henchmen (6-12-1)
#3 MoRRie’s Pogiboys (6-13)
#4 Funk Coalition (5-14)

Tie-Breakers
Divisonal Winner
No ties at the top spots. Although, for the second year in a row, So Buckets receives a higher playoff seed despite the lower overall record. They finished with one less win than #3 Spade.

Playoff Wild Cards
No ties.

Toilet Bowl Tie-Breaks
Buffy beat Jedi Knights H2H in a WK6 matchup, so they get the higher seed.

Playoff & Toilet Bowl Seedings: 2013

PLAYOFFS
*= division winner

Chamberlain Conference

#1 Sour Snails (14-5)*

#2 LA Buffy (13-6)*

#3 Squirtle Squad (12-6-1)

#4 Fat Jubas (10-9)

Russell Conference

#1 NJ All-Stars (15-4)*

#2 So Buckets (10-9)*

#3 Chunky Monkeys (11-7-1)

#4 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps (9-8-2)

TOILET BOWL

Chamberlain Conference

#1 Fob Stars (9-9-1)

#2 Half Man Half ImAsian (7-10-2)

#3 Eron, Joven and Chandler (6-13)

#4 Jedi Knights (3-14-2)

Russell Conference

#1 Super Ninja (9-9-1)
#2 Funk Coalition (8-9-2)

#3 MoRRie's Pogiboys (8-10-1)

#4 Human Amoebas (1-17-1)

Tie Breakers
Divisional Winner
For the first time ever, nobody had the same records, which was fantastic for figuring out the seedings! The only quirk that appeared was So Buckets having a higher seed over the Chunky Monkeys (who had more wins) based on winning the Voltron division.

Playoff Wild Cards
Ditto.

Toilet Bowl Tie-Breaks
No tie-break problems here either!

Playoffs

Toilet Bowl

Playoff & Toilet Bowl Seedings: 2012

PLAYOFFS
*= division winner

Chamberlain Conference

#1 Squirtle Squad (10-2)*

#2 Fat Jubas (9-3)*

#3 Half Man Half ImAsian (8-4)

#4 The 2005 NBA All-Star Team (6-6)

Russell Conference

#1 The Horizon (8-4)*

#2 Chunky Monkeys (8-4)*

#3 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps (8-4)

#4 NJ All-Stars (8-4)

TOILET BOWL

Chamberlain Conference

#1 LA Buffy (5-7)

#2 Sour Snails (4-8)

#3 Jedi Knights (2-10)

#4 Fob Stars (1-11)

Russell Conference

#1 MoRRie's Pogiboys (8-4)

#2 Human Amoebas (5-7)

#3 Funk Coalition (3-9)

#4 So Buckets (3-9)

Tie Breakers
Divisional Winner
There was no dispute on the Chamberlain Conference side of things, as Squirtle Squad and Fat Jubas clearly took their divisions. Congratulations to Brian and Eric-L. Over on the Russell Conference side, the picture was a lot cloudier.

Five teams had 8-4 records and we had to go to multiple tie-breakers to determine both divisional winners and wild card entrants. First, over on the Voltron division, The Horizon and MoRRie's Pogiboys were tied in Overall and H2H records. Division record went to The Horizon, as Thien was 5-2 in their division while Alvin's team was 4-3 versus the rest of the Voltron. Voltron winner: The Horizon

On the Thundercats side, three teams were tied at 8-4. The H2H record among all three teams was this: Chunky Monkeys and 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps both went 3-1 while NJ All-Stars went 0-4, eliminating them from the divisional championship. After that, the Monkeys and Heffalumps tied for their personal H2H, moving us to divisional records. Evan won out with a 5-1 intra-divisonal record, while Jose was only 4-2. Thundercats winner: Chunky Monkeys

Between The Horizon and Chunky Monkeys, Thien won their only matchup for the year, giving his squad the #1 playoff seed.

Playoff Wild Cards
This leaves Jose, Alvin, and Eddie to battle it out for two wild card slots. After tying in Overall Record, the rules state we move on to H2H record between the three teams. 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps secures one of the wild card slots based on their 3-0 record (NJ All-Stars went 1-2 and Pogiboys 0-2). With Jose taken care of, we reset tie-breakers.

The NJ All-Stars then secures the other wildcard spot based on their H2H record versus Pogiboys, an epic 9-0-0 win in WK1.

The Heffalumps get the higher seed over NJ All-Stars because of their superior 2-0 head-to-head record between the two of them.

Toilet Bowl Tie-Breaks
No big problems here, with only Funk Coalition and So Buckets tied at 3-9 but with the tie-break going to Jon for his lone H2H win versus Josh.

Playoffs

Toilet Bowl

Playoff and Toilet Bowl Seedings

PLAYOFFS
 *= division winner
Chamberlain Conference
#1- Fat Jubas (15-4)*
#2- LA Buffy (13-6)*
#3- Sour Snails (14-5)
#4- Half Man Half ImAsian (12-7)

Russell Conference
#1- 100 Acre Wood Heffalumps (15-4)*
#2- Slam N Dragon (11-8)*
#3- Human Amoebas (9-10)
#4- Funk Coalition (9-10)

TOILET BOWL
Chamberlain Conference
#5- Squirtle Squad (11-8)
#6- 2005 NBA All Star Team (9-10)
#7- Fob Stars (6-13)
#8- Jedi Knights (4-15)

Russell Conference
#5- Bayside Bombardiers (8-11)
#6- Chunky Monkeys (6-13)
#7- Morrie's Pogiboys (5-14)
#8- Nande Reburonsan (5-14)

Tie Breakers
#1: Human Amoebas defeated Funk Coalition, WK16
#2: Morrie's Pogiboys and Nande Reburonsan had even H2H, even conference records, and was tie broken by Most Categories Won (Season)

Playoffs

Toilet Bowl